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Quotes About Fantasy

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?
~ Richard Matheson
I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.
~ Richard Rodriguez
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.
~ Richelle Mead
No one in life can ever match fiction
~ Sabrina Jeffries
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.
~ Stephen King
Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.
~ Susane Colasanti
We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.
~ Vera Nazarian
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
~ Walter Dean Myers
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.
~ Will Gluck
Life isn't what it's like in the movies.
~ Josh Hartnett
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
~ Lady Gaga
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.
~ Lily Collins
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!
~ Maggie Stiefvater
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
~ Manuel Puig
Life is better when we imagine it
~ Marie Arana
Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
~ Frederick Lenz
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-year-olds that there were dragons living in the storm drains, under our street. 'We feed them meat...and then they don't get hungry and blow fire and roast us.' Little James listened closely, with a very serious expression on his face. Then he ran home to get some hot dogs from his mother.
~ John Elder Robison
Maybe we'll catch a dragon in a tadpole net.
~ John Flanagan
Nou ja, we kennen allemaal die theorie dat de wereld een grote schotel op de rug van een reusachtige schildpad is. - Thorn
~ John Flanagan
If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
~ John Flanagan